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Originally Posted by balok
Here's another less than ideal solution, but it may be promising. Even if conversion tools aren't perfect, there could be a way to improve them by using an xml source format specifically designed for conversion. By analogy, we could refer to Java's "compile once, run anywhere" idea. The end user would take the source text, plug it into a conversion program, and have it come out exactly the way it should look on his device, no tweaking.
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That is precisely the way that "BookDesigner" - the tool that created most of the books available for download here works. It stores the book in XML and you simply choose your output format - Sony Reader, MobiPocket, LIT, or whatever.
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I think it's a pity that all those BBeB and Mobipocket files in the Mobileread ebook listing will probably become obsolete soon enough. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony completely abandoned BBeB in favour of ePub.
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I really don't think that MobiPocket is going to disappear any time soon. It is pretty much a
de facto standard, supported on multiple hardware platforms with books sold by many different retails. Added to which it has the marketting "muscle" of Amazon behind it. It's the format in which by far the largest number of commercial eBooks are available.